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Verbs in Turkish are more difficult then the adjective
Bcs Turkish has no genders, an adjective keeps its form as it is, thus compared to Portuguese or Spanish it is easy
I would also think Turkish is not extremely rich in terms of adjective vocabulary
Turkish verbs are difficult as it does not follow the same logic as indo european languages, no auxillary verb for example. They are very regular, but still very difficult for beginner level
Yet again you can not go without learning the verbs
I suggest at beginner level you concentrate verb to be and to have which are quiet difficult still.. and u proceed slowly with the tenses..
0 votedSeptember 29, 20130- Just like Candaş told, there is almost no difference Thought in some cases, the native speakers make a distinction, I had only 1 example: I've realised, when we use ordinal numbers, i.e first, second, third kez is more likely to be used i.e ilk kez - (not ilk kere) first time ikinci kez üçüncü kez etc0 votedJuly 16, 20130
Köprü - Bridge
Efendim - Literally, it means "my Lord" - Efendi + m - It is also used colloquially alot to mean, "pardon me?" or affirmative answer as you have said
Ayva - We use ayva as the fruit quince in Turkish. It does not mean affirmative answer as in arabic, it is just a coincidence
Tamam - I suppose this is arabic in origin, but we do use it in TUrkish
Khalas - Never heard it being used in TUrkish
Boza - I suppose it might be derived from the turkish word "buz" (ice), as I believe you pronounce it like boouza in arabic. Boza in Turkish is another drink and I guess it is not related
Doghru - It means Straight or Right (Correct)the words ending with -ci are all TUrkish as ci is a TUrkish suffix to express the "maker" of an action
i.e
yardım - help
yardımcı - the helpersüt - milk
sütçü - the milk maker or sellermakwaji and sofraji I've never heard. For the waiter in Modern Turkish we use Garson, derivered from the french garçon
Koboudan - In turkish we use Kaptan derivered from Kaptan.(Eng Captain)
some very different words I would say we use in colloquial speech that come from arabic are as below
Yömiye- Ar: Yowm / The daily wage
Mesai - Ar: Mesa / The evening or the extra shift
Asgari Maaş : Ar: Sagiir / The smallest wage
Kadim - Ar: Qadim / Old or dear - Very much used saying Kadim Arkadaşım - My dear friend or my friend for a long time
İsim
Şahıs
Züccaciye
İştima
Müşteri / Client: Ar: Shtiri (To Buy)
Meşgul
Müsade
Müsait
(People believe almost all of the words that start with m in Turkish are arabic)Hope that helps
0 votedJuly 14, 20130Hello Hassan
You are indeed right that Turkish, the Modern Turkish spoken in Turkey does have alot of Arabic words and vice versa
During the Ottaman Empire, the Ottoman Language was mostly used by the inhibitants as the language to communicate. Many of the people studying literature or science would know both Farsi and Arabic, so using these languages were a sign of education so people, even speaking in the street used alot of arabic words. This of course was inevitable due to strong impact of religion, Islam.
Turkish and Arabic are 2 very different languages, just like Arabic and Farsi/Persian that share alot vocabulary. Arabic is a semitic language that is alot based on mostly 3 lettered rooted words without showing the vowels. On the contrary, Turkish is extremely rich in terms of vowels and works with adding suffixes to the words.
Besides the religious word, we share alot of culturel words for which we sometimes really need to dig in, to see how much we share.
0 votedJuly 14, 20130- Polis çekildi duydum is correct if you have a comma after çekildi, and perhaps an excl mark after duydum - i.e Polis çekildi, duydum! So in english that would be Polis çekildi, duydum - The police has withdrawn, (yes), I heard it! (in a way you heard and saw them) Polisin çekildiğini duydum - I heard the police has withdrawn (in a way you were told so)0 votedJune 18, 20130
- İşitmek is very rarely used, more in literature. You wouldn't hear it in colloquail speaking : Seni işitemedim, işitemiyorum or beni işitiyor musun? I have the impression that even in literature it is used not as often, mostly for idioms, usually expressing something happening all of a sudden "Aniden bir ses işitti" - Suddenly s/he heard a voice Duymak can be used almost in any word işitmek is used, but it is not correct vice versa so I suggest you use duymak instead all the time. Dinlemek, as Cey advised, is totally different. .0 votedJune 18, 20130
- The ş might be confusing to you, but we Turks use ş in a verb to make it what we call işteş (mutual) So for example görmek - to see gör+ş+mek = görüşmek (to see each other, to meet) selamlamak - to salute or to say hi selamla+ş+mak= selamlaşmak (to say each other hi, to salute each other) sevmek = to love sev+ş+mek = sevişmek (to make love - lit. to love each other) öpmek = to kiss öp+ş+mek = öpüşmek (to kiss each other) with the same way, anlamak = to understand anla + ş + mak = to understand each other anlaştık is pass tense of 1.st plural (i.e we) of anlaşmak Anlaştık: We understood each other - We made a deal. Hope it clarifies0 votedJune 18, 20131
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